18세기 후반기(1750-1800)의 바흐상

A figure of Bach in the second half of the eighteenth century

In the second half of the eighteenth century the comprehension and reception of Bach's music had been in various ways. It is generally accepted that Bach's music and composition methods are to be preserved and reconstructed as they were because those can make new music style of the period strong and solid. This traditional and conservative aspect coexisted with a progressive figure of Bach, which considered Bach as a new music figure whose music could be reinterpreted and recreated to meet the expectation of the new era, and reevaluated Bach's works as music for genuine artists, who pursue the essence of music. A innovative image of Bach that appraised Bach music as a living and absolute entity in perspectives of changed musical styles, new aesthetics in expression, and the sublime aesthetics came to the fore in the 1780s by Johann Friedrich Reichardt and Christian Friedrich Schubart, and became the basis for the reception of Bach in the nineteenth century.